The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps is altering its focus from frontier defense to maintaining social stability as China builds good relations with its neighbors to the west, according to Cheng Jiazhu, deputy commander of the corps, which is marking its 60th anniversary.

As cracks widened among protesters in Hong Kong, government and community leaders called on the crowds to abandon their blockades of trunk roads and government headquarters buildings for the sake of personal safety and the greater good of the public.

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